Example Sentences
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On Thursday, Kazakhstan, an exporter of oil and copper, devaluated its currency to help its economy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2015
Dollar based assets are devaluated and this makes foreign investment in the US less profitable while commodities such as oil increase in price.
From Economist ● Jun. 1, 2012
Once more gathering over France like an angry storm cloud is the issue of whether the franc must soon be devaluated.
From Time Magazine Archive
Few of his monetary advisers doubted, however, that the gold would eventually be called in, so that if and when the dollar is devaluated 50% the Treasury could pocket 100% profit on the $3,600,000,000.
From Time Magazine Archive
It now bridges dramatically between life and death, in a world where the currency of both life and death is, for all practical purposes, devaluated.
From The Civilization of Illiteracy by Nadin, Mihai
